TALLINN, Estonia and COPENHAGEN, June 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Charter Brings Equity, Performance and Accountability to Health Sector

Ministers of health from 53 countries (1), which make the WHO European Region, today signed a new charter on health systems, committing themselves to concrete and measurable action on strengthening health systems that will allow both their own people and the international community to hold them to account.

NERVIANO, Italy, June 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Accelera Recognised as Key Partner in the Development of a New Therapy

The development of fexinidazole for the treatment of African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as "sleeping sickness", by DNDi (Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative), along with Accelera, a business unit of Nerviano Medical Sciences (NMS), is to be honoured as one of DNDi's Success Stories of the Year. The award will be conferred today in New York, at the prestigious headquarters of the New York Academy of Sciences, during the first annual Stakeholders' Meeting of DNDi. Accelera is recognised as DNDi's key partner in the non-clinical development of fexinidazole.

LONDON, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Rustlers may be the market leaders in the hot snacking section of your local supermarket, but that doesn't mean they're content to rest on their burgers. They've teamed up with Machinima.com, the most popular machinima website in the world, to launch the art in the UK - and they've brought along a friend to help them.

The odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon computer chip has led to a discovery that opens the door to quantum computing in semiconductors.

In a Nature Physics journal paper currently online, the researchers describe how they have created a new, hybrid molecule in which its quantum state can be intentionally manipulated - a required step in the building of quantum computers.

"Up to now large-scale quantum computing has been a dream," says Gerhard Klimeck, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University and associate director for technology for the national Network for Computational Nanotechnology.

LONDON, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Solcara, the market-leading provider of software for the control, management and searching of digital information, has partnered with ISYS Search to extend its SolSearch offering. SolSearch Indexer will deliver a powerful, comprehensive and cost effective enterprise search solution, which combines market leading federated search technology with an advanced indexing capability.

GALASHIELS, Scotland, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- ProStrakan Group plc (LSE: PSK), the international specialty pharmaceutical company, announces that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has issued a positive opinion recommending approval of Abstral (formerly branded as Rapinyl), the fast-acting tablet for breakthrough cancer pain. ProStrakan plans to launch Abstral in Sweden in Q3 2008 and, as a result of today's announcement, across Europe from the end of 2008.

STOCKHOLM, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Vattenfall, the European energy company, announces a new downloadable footage service for broadcast journalists, launching 27 June, 2008.

To view the Multimedia News Release, please click: http://mnr2.world-television.com/vattenfall/421/

Within the Press and News section of its website, under Video Gallery journalists can now immediately view and download, free of charge, broadcast-quality (MPEG2) footage. This includes B-Roll footage covering Vattenfall's business and operations in its markets in Europe: Germany, Poland and the Nordic region.

Journalists can search quickly and easily for relevant footage, which can be viewed prior to download via the streaming preview function.

LONDON, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Micro Focus, the UK software company, today announced full-year results that saw revenues rise above the $200m mark for the first time including a 'pleasing' return from North America of 20 per cent. The company said it was proposing a 30 per cent rise in its final dividend to shareholders.

In a video interview, Micro Focus CEO Stephen Kelly said the results exceeded expectations.

"We are very ambitious for the company," he said. "But I think it's quite responsible for us to keep our feet on the ground, our focus on the strategy and the planning and executing well. And if we exceed our expectations, then that's all good."

LONDON, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- On Wednesday 2 July 2008, members of the Road Haulage Association, the lobby group TransAction 2007 and the Transport Association will take the fuel issue to the heart of the Nation's capital to ensure that soaring fuel prices and the highest levels of fuel duty in Europe are top of the political agenda. And while convoy of Heavy Goods Vehicles makes its way from the M40 Westway south to Westminster, a large foot lobby will be taking the message to the Houses of Parliament.

LONDON, June 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Over Half of British Employees Want to Work to The Sound Of Music

- Glastonbury Live Act Neil Diamond, Famed for Hits Like Sweet Caroline, Top Choice for Work Party

The Rocky Theme Tune has been voted the cheesiest motivational song in an Orange Business Services poll about the effect of music in the workplace. Conjuring up images of the Ricky Gervais' motivational talks in The Office, over a third (36 per cent) of people named it as the worst motivational song. But cheesy music isn't a total flop with Glastonbury headliner, Neil Diamond, being named the artist people would most like to perform at a work party beating other Glastonbury artists including Amy Winehouse, Jay Z and The Gossip.